Foreign News: The Lords & Ladies

When the question of reform of the House of Lords came up for debate
four months ago, no aspect of it shocked the peers more than the
proposal to admit women to the august Upper House. "The main point is
that many of us do not want women in this House!" roared the
83-year-old Earl of Glasgow. "We do not want to sit beside them on
these benches. We do not want to meet them in the library. This is a
House of men, a House of Lords. We do not wish it to become a House of
Lords and Ladies."...